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Definition of Sweating sickness

Sweating sickness
Sweating Sweat"ing, a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

Meaning of Sweating sickness from wikipedia

- Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease...
- Sweating sickness is "an acute, febrile, tickborne toxicosis characterized mainly by a profuse, moist eczema and hyperemia of the skin and visible mucous...
- Picardy sweat was an infectious disease of unknown cause and one of the only diseases that resembles the English sweating sickness. The Picardy sweat is also...
- died not long after their mother. Their death may have been due to sweating sickness. Provisions made for Anne and Grace in Cromwell's will, dated 12 July...
- Shropshire, where Arthur died six months later, possibly from the sweating sickness, which Catherine survived. Catherine later firmly stated that the...
- years. Elizabeth died early in 1529, of what is believed to be the sweating sickness, and was survived by her three children, her husband, and her mother...
- whom survived childhood: Thomas Boleyn (1496 - 1506) died young of sweating sickness; Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 19 July 1543); Mary Carey (1520–1528); Mary...
- later became Dukes of Suffolk. However, they eventually died of the sweating sickness within an hour of each other. Between 1536–1543, Charles gave his...
- Virtual reality sickness (VR sickness) occurs when exposure to a virtual environment causes symptoms that are similar to motion sickness symptoms. The most...
- Leopold; Cochez, Christel (7 January 2014). "Were the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses?". Viruses. 6 (1): 151–171. doi:10...